D Team does well ...

The D Team did well, with no losses. Jim won as Board 1, Chris won by default in Board 2 from a no show (she did some homework instead), Joe had a good draw on Board 3 and Rhys won his first ever match as Board 4.

I've noted this below. It was his longest ever match he says and although he was chewing his pen a time or two I think he did better than I would have. To prove it I played Gordon immediately afterwards and he thrashed me convincingly. A good win by the D team against a strong side.

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[Event "CDCL Div 3 Match"]
[Site "Nuneaton"]
[Date "2010.10.26"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Gordan Crump"]
[Black "Rhys Davies"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteELO "70"]
[BlackELO "?"]

%Created by Caissa's Web PGN Editor
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. dxc5 Bxc5 6. Nc3 Qc7 7. Bb5 Bd7 8.
O-O Nxe5 9. Bxd7+ Kxd7 10. Nb5 Qb6 11. Nbd4 Nxf3+ 12. Nxf3 Rd8 13. Ne5+ Kc8
14. Nxf7 Nf6 15. Nxh8 Rxh8 16. c3 Rd8 17. b4 Bd6 18. Rb1 Bc7 19. Bg5 h6 20.
Bxf6 gxf6 21. Qf3 Qd6 22. g3 f5 23. Qe3 h5 24. h4 Bb6 25. Qg5 Rh8 26. Qf6 Bd8
27. Qxh8 f4 28. Kg2 Kb8 {Trying to get the King safe so not to worry about
him. } 29. Qxh5 a6 30. Qh6 Bc7 31. Kh3 fxg3 {Threatening mate if fxg} 32.
Qf8+?? {This was the big mistake move. } 32... Qxf8 33. fxg3 Qg8 34. Rf3 Ka7
35. b5 Qg6 36. Rb4 a5 37. Rg4 Qb1 38. Rg7 Qh1+ 39. Kg4 Bb6 40. Rff7 d4 41.
cxd4 Bxd4 42. Rg8 Qe4+ 43. Rf4 Qe5 44. Rc8 Qd5 45. a4 e5 46. Rff8 Qe6+ 47.
Kh5 Be3 48. Ra8+ Kb6 49. g4?? {This was an unfortunate move ...} 49... Qh6#
0-1

Cov League results

In the C team match Nigel Malka drew, Paul Hardstaff won and Malcolm Harding won ! Default on bottom due to late withdrawal.

So the C team won 2.5 - 1.5

In the A team match we lost to University B 1.5 - 2.5

Bob Wildig won, Jonathan Cox lost (trying too hard Jonathan !) Simon Turner drew, Olushola Borisade lost.

Div 3 Leamington League result.

The Rugby team made the long trip down to Chipping Camden on Monday (11th Oct). We lost the match despite strong games on all 3 boards. However the venue was quaint - a cottage belonging to the local church. The hosts were also hospitable; pouring us a cup of tea at the start of play. I like that!

A. Grimes 0.5 vs Roy Talbot 0.5
W. Langley 1 vs Jim MacDonald 0
W. Nash 1 vs Joe Oswell 0

Chipping Camden won 2.5 to 0.5

Div 2 result

The result between our 2 division 2 sides was as below :

Board 1. Jonathan Cox 0.5 - Nalin Kadodwala 0.5
Board 2. Simon Turner 1 Nigel Malka 0
Board 3. John Hall 1 Darius 0
Board 4. Josh Stehr 1 Andrew Turk 0

So the B team beat the C team 2.5 - 1.5

First CDCL outing for Rugby Team D ...

A triumph for new player Olushola Borusade (who won as Board 2), and a good night for Roy Talbot who drew (on Board 1). Not so pretty for Joe and Chris who both lost. Chris's loss is shown below. Advice on where she went wrong and how to avoid in future would be appreciated. It started so well ...

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[Event "CDCL Division 3"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2010.10.5"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Pegler (Rugby D)"]
[Black "Blunden (Coventry E)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteELO "64"]
[BlackELO "46"]

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1. d4 Nc6 2. Nf3 d6 3. g3 Bg4 4. Bg2 g6 5. O-O Bg7 {Feeling exposed so move to
protect centre pawn} 6. c3 Bxf3 {Well I am happy to exchange here.} 7. Bxf3
Qd7 {I can see that the queen could move in on me but had no idea of what
would happen ...} 8. Bf4 {Just to develop.} 8... Qf5 {Still can't work out the
plan. But I now have one of my own ...} 9. Qb3 b6 {Which he thwarts (sort
of).} 10. Bxc6+ {:-)} 10... Kd8 {Now, I can take the Rook but took a long time
contemplating e4 and that was probably a better move. Opnions please.} 11.
Bxa8 e6 12. e4 {What should I have done instead? Maybe Nd2 and then Nf3? }
12... Qh3 13. Nd2 Nf6 14. d5 Ng4 {That's it. I really am in touble now. } 15.
Nf3 {The only way to save myself from Qxh2++} 15... exd5 {He's closing in
...} 16. Bg5+ f6 17. Be3 h6 18. Qb5 dxe4 {How to stop him taking my
life-saving knight?} 19. Bxb6 {Desparate measures now, but still can't make
this work for me.} 19... axb6 20. Rfe1 exf3 {Okay, that's it. I resign.} 0-1

You can order pics from Rugby Advertiser ...

... including the group pics and various others that they did not use in spread.




group pic that they used on the inside page

group picture which they stuck on the back (Nalin suffers from an optical illusion here. He looks much taller in the other shots :-)).

How to find the others? Try this link (which takes you to the Search, put in 'chess Sep23' - without the quotes, to view our set). Worth doing as there are others there which show some chess in action and some nice individual shots.

If you _really_ like any you can order T-shirts and mugs for Christmas. For those who did not make it to the official photo shoot, the opportunity for online immortality is not lost. I plan on doing some player profiles for the new season, starting with some of those not pictured here. You have been warned ...

Div3 Leamington League match result

Rugby hosted the match vs Leamington C on Monday night (27 Sep):

Simon Turner 0.5 vs Jason Madden 0.5
Jon Hall 1 vs Guy Greenland 0
Joe Oswell 0 vs Peter Leggit 1

Match drawn: 1.5 to 1.5. A solid start to the season with a win & a draw in the first 2 ties - well done!